Dun-le-Palestel (; oc, Dun) is a commune in the Creuse
department
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* Departmentalization, division of a larger organization into parts with specific responsibility
Government and military
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A farming and light industrial village situated some northwest of Guéret at the junction of the D913, D44, D5 and the D951 roads.
Population
Sights
* The church of Notre-Dame, built between 1905 and 1908.
* The Lavoir of Dunet where the residents of the village washed their linens before the invention of the washing machine.
* The portal of the old church, dating from the thirteenth century.
* The war memorial.
* Vestiges of the
moat
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of a
castle
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.
* A
dolmen
A dolmen () or portal tomb is a type of single-chamber megalithic tomb, usually consisting of two or more upright megaliths supporting a large flat horizontal capstone or "table". Most date from the early Neolithic (40003000 BCE) and were somet ...